Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: > On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: >> This essay practically screams out for somebody to write a C program >> that takes an argument of an arbitrary string, finds all files in a >> directory, and returns a long string with those files separated by the >> arbitrary string. > > You seem to be looking for find -print0; \0 is one of the few characters > which is not valid to have in a file name.
Sadly POSIX has no -print0 for find[1]. So if you are for some reason limited to POSIX, there is no nice solution. > It's not like it's that hard to do this properly in a policy compliant > POSIX shell, either. Use IFS and reset it as appropriate, or properly > quote things. It's possible, but prone to errors. Ansgar [1] <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/85oatht9ci....@tsukuyomi.43-1.org
